Byron, the Bible, and Religion: Essays from the Twelfth International Byron SeminarWolf Z. Hirst This work consists of eight essays selected from papers given at the Twelfth International Byron Symposium. Much of Byron's poetry is examined, but the focus is on the Mysteries and Don Juan. The subjects include the Cain figure, Byron's skepticism, his attitude toward Christianity and religion in general, and his literary use of the Bible. |
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... turn out untrue " ( 14. 3 ) . Frederick Beaty , arguing that " Byron never quite resolved his ambivalence toward religion , " makes the important observation that " The numerous slurs on both its doctrine and practice need not suggest ...
... turn out untrue " ( 14. 3 ) . Frederick Beaty , arguing that " Byron never quite resolved his ambivalence toward religion , " makes the important observation that " The numerous slurs on both its doctrine and practice need not suggest ...
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... turn of Byron's mind " in Bernard Beatty's Byron's Don Juan.8 " There can be no doubt , " says Beatty , " of Byron's closeness to orthodox belief and his own knowledge of his persistence on the perimeters of religious faith . " 9 In a ...
... turn of Byron's mind " in Bernard Beatty's Byron's Don Juan.8 " There can be no doubt , " says Beatty , " of Byron's closeness to orthodox belief and his own knowledge of his persistence on the perimeters of religious faith . " 9 In a ...
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... turning its tools on himself . " 12 ( I might have emphasized the difference in genre between Cain and Don Juan - indeed the present volume as a whole neglects generic distinctions . ) The constant reversals and pervasive skepticism of ...
... turning its tools on himself . " 12 ( I might have emphasized the difference in genre between Cain and Don Juan - indeed the present volume as a whole neglects generic distinctions . ) The constant reversals and pervasive skepticism of ...
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... turn out untrue " ( 14. 3 ) . Frederick Beaty , arguing that " Byron never quite resolved his ambivalence toward religion , " makes the important observation that " The numerous slurs on both its doctrine and practice need not suggest ...
... turn out untrue " ( 14. 3 ) . Frederick Beaty , arguing that " Byron never quite resolved his ambivalence toward religion , " makes the important observation that " The numerous slurs on both its doctrine and practice need not suggest ...
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Contents
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Byrons Cain as Sacred Executioner | 25 |
Between History and Theology | 39 |
Biblical Skepticism and Romantic Irony | 58 |
Byrons Revisionary Struggle with the Bible | 77 |
Byron in the Underground | 101 |
Biblical | 118 |
Hebraism and Hellenism in the Poetry of Byron | 136 |
Byron and the Place of Religion | 153 |
Works Cited | 169 |
Contributors | 179 |
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Abel story Abel theme Adam and Eve Adam's Aholibamah allusions ambivalence Anah angels Bayle Bayle's Dictionary becomes Bible biblical Byron's Cain Byronic Hero Cain and Abel Cain story Cain's Cambridge canto character Childe Harold Christian context critical dialectic divine doctrine Don Juan Don Juan tradition drama episode Eros Essays eternal faith Fall Genesis guilt Haidee Harvard University Press Heaven and Earth Hebraic Hegel Hellenic hero Hirst human immanence ironic ironist Japhet John Juan's Keats-Shelley Journal Kenite Kierkegaard knowledge literary London Looper Lord Byron Lucifer Lucifer's Manfred Manfred's Marchand metaphor metonymy Milton's modern moral motif murderer mystery myth Noah Old Testament Paradise Lost paradoxically perhaps Pierre Bayle play poem poet poet's poetic Princeton punishment Quinones Ray Stevens readers religion religious Romantic Irony Romantic Poetry Romanticism sacred executioner sacrifice salvation scriptural secular sense sexual skepticism spirit stanza theodicy theological things Thorslev thou vols words York
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Page 131 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 25 - Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the Libyan air adust, Began to parch that temperate clime; whereat In either hand the hastning Angel caught Our lingring Parents, and to th' Eastern Gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd.
Page 88 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture : I can see Nothing to loathe in nature, save to be A link reluctant in a fleshly chain...
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Page 111 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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Page 24 - The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide : They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way.
Page 70 - Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
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"And trace it in this poem every line": Methoden und Verfahren ... Thomas Rommel Limited preview - 1995 |